Framework to improve flood incident management in Europe

A review of current flood event management plans in the UK, the Netherlands and France and an assessment of ways to improve flood risk planning.

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
22 February 2021
Category:
Managing flood incidents
Topics:
Communicating risk, Emergency planning, Flood costs, Flood forecasting, Flood risk assessment, Flood warning, Health, safety and wellbeing, Incident management, Monitoring and detection
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC090013
Date of completion:
31 March 2011

Documents

External link: FIM FRAME website - Framework to improve flood incident management in Europe - Research outputs

Details

This assessment reviews how effective and robust current flood event management plans are in the UK, the Netherlands and France and assesses methods to improve these plans. It develops evidence and a framework for improvement to support flood event management planning in the future.

This project:

  • evaluates the current tools and technical systems used for flood event management planning and the ability of these tools to support future flood event emergency planning to reduce residual risk - mainly loss of life
  • establishes how existing tools (guidelines, models) can be used to improve emergency management plans for floods and whether there are any gaps in the range of tools that are available
  • provides a framework by which flood incident management can be improved

This project ran from 2009 to 2011.

Published 22 February 2021